Ge-hendnys
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-hendnys
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-hendnys
- Add: I. in a local sense. (1) nearness, neighbourhood :-- Gif hwā feorran cōme and wolde his lāc Gode offrian, dæt hē on gehendnysse (at hand) tō bicgenne gearu hæfde, Hml. Th. i. 406, 23. Hēr on gehendnysse syndon [þā] þe þīne deórlingas beón sceoldon, Hml. S. 23, 147. (2) what is at hand :-- Hergiendum gehwylce gehendnysse bereánendum grassatoribus obuia queeque uastantibus, An. Ox. 2713. II. of kinship, relationship, propinquity :-- Gehendnys propinquitas, An. Ox. 4180.